You may want to check your choke linkages. Having one stuck and not the
other would explain #'s 3 and 4 firing and not 1 and 2. Maybe both are
stuck?
-----Original Message-----
From: Amy & Erik <apotter@mn.rr.com>
To: datsun-roadsters@autox.team.net <datsun-roadsters@autox.team.net>
Date: Sunday, October 22, 2000 3:57 PM
Subject: newbie mechanic needs help
>Or should that be wannabe mechanic? I cannot get my car to start.
>Car de-smogged 2L1600, Last ran about 2 months ago. Would die due to lots
of
>sediment in tank, but when it ran, it ran nicely. Got a new (gas tank
renu)
>tank, new modern fuel filter, new fuel pump diaphram, cleaned out the
>screens in the banjo bolts. Checked the oil in the pistons, all is fine.
>Gas is making it to the carbs, I can see it dripping through the filter. I
>bypassed the glass bowl.
>It started but was running only on the #3 and 4 cylinders. New plugs this
>week. The wires are in the correct firing order, plug gap is fine, yellow
>spark shows on all 4. New cap, rotor points and coil last spring. A
slight
>amount of what looks like soot, or powder on the inside of the cap.
>Now I cannot get it to start. It will catch ever so slightly then die with
>the occasional backfire. It will have a lumpy idle like it is running on 1
>cylinder, then die in seconds. The only other thing I can report is the
>black liquid sooty stuff being spit out the tailpipe, and the plugs were
>slightly damp, indicating what? Too rich, flooded? What else should I be
>looking at?
>Erik Smeby
>2L 1600 running about as well as my 0L 2000
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